Now Comes Good Sailing Writers Reflect on Henry David Thoreau / edited by Andrew Blauner.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Blauner, Andrew, editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Thoreau, Henry David, 1817-1862--Appreciation.

Thoreau, Henry David, 1817-1862--Influence.

BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Literary Figures.

LITERARY CRITICISM / American / General.

Genre:

Essays.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (365 pages)

Place of Publication:

[2021] Princeton, New Jersey : Princeton University Press,

Summary:

"From twenty-seven of today's leading writers, an anthology of original pieces on the author of WaldenFeatures essays by Jennifer Finney Boylan, Kristen Case, George Howe Colt, Gerald Early, Paul Elie, Will Eno, Adam Gopnik, Lauren Groff, Celeste Headlee, Pico Iyer, Alan Lightman, James Marcus, Megan Marshall, Michelle Nijhuis, Zoë Pollak, Jordan Salama, Tatiana Schlossberg, A. O. Scott, Mona Simpson, Stacey Vanek Smith, Wen Stephenson, Robert Sullivan, Amor Towles, Sherry Turkle, Geoff Wisner, Rafia Zakaria, and a cartoon by Sandra BoyntonThe world is never done catching up with Henry David Thoreau (1817-1862), the author of Walden, "Civil Disobedience," and other classics. A prophet of environmentalism and vegetarianism, an abolitionist, and a critic of materialism and technology, Thoreau even seems to have anticipated a world of social distancing in his famous experiment at Walden Pond. In Now Comes Good Sailing, twenty-seven of today's leading writers offer wide-ranging original pieces exploring how Thoreau has influenced and inspired them-and why he matters more than ever in an age of climate, racial, and technological reckoning.Here, Lauren Groff retreats from the COVID-19 pandemic to a rural house and writing hut, where, unable to write, she rereads Walden; Pico Iyer describes how Thoreau provided him with an unlikely guidebook to Japan; Gerald Early examines Walden and the Black quest for nature; Rafia Zakaria reflects on solitude, from Thoreau's Concord to her native Pakistan; Mona Simpson follows in Thoreau's footsteps at Maine's Mount Katahdin; Jennifer Finney Boylan reads Thoreau in relation to her experience of coming out as a trans woman; Adam Gopnik traces Thoreau's influence on the New Yorker editor E. B. White and his book Charlotte's Web; and there's much more.The result is a lively and compelling collection that richly demonstrates the countless ways Thoreau continues to move, challenge, and provoke readers today"-- Provided by publisher.

"An anthology of original reflections on Henry David Thoreau's life and work"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Frontmatter

CONTENTS

Preface

Acknowledgments

Excursions near and Far

Wild Apples

My Guidebook to Japan

Walden and the Black Quest for Nature, or My Summer Vacation with Big Sis

Twenty-Four Hours on Pea Island

The Fragility of Solitude

My Failure

Without

Deliberate Living

To a Slower Life

Walden as an Art

The Year of Not Living Thickly

If I Had Loved Her Less

Following Thoreau

Directions of his Dreams

Thoreau on Ice

“The Record of My Love”: Thoreau and the Art of Science

The Apples of His Eye

You Bring the Weather with You

Thoreau in Love

Practicalities

As for Clothing

On Pencils and Purpose

The House That Thoreau Built

Is It Worth the While?

A Few Elements of American Style

At Walden

Concord Is a Kind of Word

Dolittle’s Rebellion

Ice, for the Time Being

Walden at Midnight: Three Walks with Thoreau

Simplify, Simplify

Notes

Contributors

Credits

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9780691247953

0691247951

9780691230955

0691230951

OCLC:

1255521385